Johnnie Bryan Hunt

Johnnie Bryan Hunt, Sr. (J. B. Hunt; February 28, 1927 – December 7, 2006) was an American entrepreneur who founded J. B. Hunt Transport Services, the largest publicly owned trucking company based in Lowell, Arkansas.

Early life and career Hunt was born in Cleburne County near Heber Springs, Arkansas. the business became the world's largest producer of poultry litter.

In 2005, Springdale Public Schools opened a new elementary school named after Hunt. The Hunt family donated the land for the school, valued in excess of $500,000. This K-5 elementary school is located on Silent Grove Road in Springdale, Arkansas. Hunt was a frequent visitor to the school after it opened.

In early 2006, Hunt bought the site of the abandoned Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas, for $6.5 million, hoping to turn it into a secure data storage facility. His death at a hospital in Springdale, Arkansas, on December 7, 2006, after sustaining a head injury in a fall on ice five days earlier, put an end to this project.

Awards and honors 1993: Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement 2001: Arkansas Business Hall of Fame 2016: Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals’ (CSCMP) Hall of Fame